Thousands of people take part in a Black Lives Matter protest march in Seattle in June 2020. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Microsoft on Tuesday shared an update on its work to promote racial equity in the U.S. by investing in and working with Black and African American led financial institutions, suppliers and partners. The…
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An example of a multifamily housing in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. (Sightline Institute Photo / Creative Commons) Roughly 9,200 affordable housing units are being preserved or created in the greater Seattle area thanks to an initiative launched by Microsoft three years ago. An additional 19,000 households have been able to hold on to their housing due…
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Solar panels. (Unsplash / Chelsea Photo) Seattle-area tech giants Amazon and Microsoft were global leaders in clean energy power purchase agreements made by corporations last year. Amazon held the top spot for the second year in a row with energy purchases totaling 6,212 megawatts (MW), or 6.2 gigawatts (GW). Microsoft was a close second with…
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Unfortunately, emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases aren’t this easy to visualize, making it challenging to figure out rigorous systems for calculating and reporting the pollution. (Matthias Heyde Photo / Unsplash) More than 683 companies, 136 countries and 234 cities have made pledges to reach net-zero carbon emissions. But for those goals to…
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Amazon secured the naming rights for Seattle’s rebuilt KeyArena, dubbing it the Climate Pledge Arena. The company’s investments helped make it the first net-zero carbon certified arena in the world. Among its enviro features is a living wall. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)) President Joe Biden is expected to sign legislation Tuesday that includes the…
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Lucas Joppa, center, at the Cascadia Vision 2050 conference in Blaine, Wash. The panel included Steve Shestag, Boeing’s director of environment, left, and moderator Yemi Adefulu, deputy executive director of the B.C. Center for Innovation and Clean Energy. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Lucas Joppa was Microsoft’s first chief environmental officer when he took the…
We visited the world’s biggest carbon capture plant, which just signed a 10-year deal with Microsoft
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Climeworks, a leader in direct air capture of carbon dioxide, has facilities alongside a large geothermal power plant outside of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik. The Orca facility is on the far right, and the new Mammoth facility will be to the left, across the road. The pipes are carrying geothermal hot water. Climeworks relies on clean,…
How much solar and wind power is out there? A Microsoft effort using satellites, AI aims to find out
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Solar arrays in Lind, Wash., that will provide power for Avista Utilities’ customers. (Avista Utilities via Instagram) In the race to curb climate change, solar panels and wind turbines are being installed across the planet — but no one knows exactly where and how much renewable power is out there. So Microsoft is teaming up…